Stop in at the Hotel Seville in Harrison AR for a sandwich in the bar. Hotel was built in 1929 and they renovated it a couple years ago. Jasper to the S of Harrison on Rt 7 is another great ride and small town. Full of hills and curves. Buffalo River to the S & E of Harrison has some great canoeing. There is a 225' tall waterfall you can hike into but I swear it's uphill coming and going. Eureka to the W of Harrison is another old town to see with great drives around it and plenty of shops although it has gotten touristy. Bull Shoals Dam and the information center on the hill above the Dam. Bull Shoals Lake, Norfork Lake, the area around Mountain Home AR. Peel Ferry takes you across Bull Shoals Lake from AR into MO. Flippin AR S of Bull Shoals Lake, just so you can say you've been to flippin' Arkansas. The 1850'concrete arch Cotter Bridge over the White River in Cotter AR. Rt 5 S from Mountain Home to Mountain View. It follows White River and has small interesting towns along it. Salem AR W on Rt. 62 out of Mountain Home is another nice drive and quaint town. A lot of these small towns and homes are built using native stone. I love them. North of Salem is Mammoth Springs at MO border. To this desert native it looked like a whole lot of cool clear water just being wasted down a river. In MO just N of Mountain Home AR area are some old mills on rivers or springs. http://www.ozarkmtns.com/milltour The Rockbridge Mill converted the old mill barn into a bar with a wooden patio looking over the stone dam. You can sit there and watch the fishermen catching trout below the dam. On a hot day with the big barn doors open, a cold brew in hand, and a cool breeze off the water it's a hard place to leave. They have weird hours and days they are open so best to call ahead. That North Central AR has a lot of beautiful country. You can google a couple of those names and check them out. What gets a guy from the desert in AZ excited might not be as exciting to a person from the land of real trees and 10,000 lakes. If you happen to be towing a motorcycle I can fix you up with some people that will show you around the back roads of that area. Oh ya, don't forget the little restaurants with their pies, cobblers, and biscuits & gravy. If you don't gain 5 lbs. you're not doing it right.

There used to be a hybrid tomato called Missouri Surprise, but it was better known by its official name, MoCross Surprise. The breeder was University of Missouri, Columbia; and the parentage was Mozark x Sioux. It was an early, red "semi-determinate" or "semi-indeterminant," F1 hybrid, early, prolific, uniform ripening, resistant to radial cracking with heavier foliage than Sioux and resistant to fusarium wilt. MoCross Surprise, aka Missouri Surprise, no longer is available because Mozark went out of production which also killed the availability of Avalanche hybrid (Mozark x Glamour). Both Sioux and Glamour still are readily available and one could produce both MoCross Surprise (I have) and Avalanche (I have not). I have a small amount of viable Mozark seeds and see someone ask about both Avalanche and Missouri Surprise every year here at GW. But everytime I offered Mozark seeds or the F1 Mozark x Sioux that I still have, no one responded or followed up. So, I just figure it was idle interest. Oh well.

Thanks all, ... we love to share our birds. :) Donna - Yes, that's Missy and Mr.B. They and 4 of their fledges from last year spent the Winter with us. The kids are all but gone now... tho we see one or more sneak back for a worms once in awhile. Missy's nest is nearly complete and we are anxiously awaiting our (I mean her) first egg. ;) We do love the Springtime! Kenn Here is a link that might be useful: Bluebirds

Good to actually hear Mountain Bluebirds nesting! I wish I lived out west and could help the other 2 species out. The Eastern has come back very well. I agree with Kendra. get something behind the window or ON it to either break the reflection or make the window more obvious. ~Tim~